Agent
Lundy, who is tracking the Trinity Killer goes there because it was built
on the site of a former tavern, where Lundy believes Trinity bludgeoned a man to death 30 years ago, in the bar's
bathroom). Lundy suspects that Trinity, a repetitive killer, will return
to the address to reenact the crime once again.

We
see Lundy standing in a sunken plaza, below a tall office tower, making
observations into a tape recorder.

Arthur
Mitchell (the Trinity Killer) spots him, and realizes he's been found out.
At first, he tries to hide, but then he changes his tactics.

He boldly walks across the plaza, towards Lundy, and deliberately bumps into him,
dropping his keys
in the process, and making eye contact during
a brief conversation (as Lundy hands him back his dropped keys).

He
then crosses the sunken plaza, walks up the steps to the street, where he catches a bus.

Lundy's
intuition tells him that there's something odd about the guy, and he adds
a brief description of the stranger into his taped recorded notes: "White
male, maybe 6' 4". 200-220 pounds. Age around 60. Eyes blue... Something
in them."

We
see the same office plaza in the next episode (5), "Dirty Harry",
after dark this time.

Just
as Lundy had predicted, the Trinity Killer returns to the location, hammer
in hand.

By
now, Dexter is on to him and Lundy's recorded notes lead Dexter to the same
office complex.

But
he's too late to save the victim, the guy who works behind the counter
at the office building's coffee stand. Dexter finds the security monitors
just in time to see Trinity smashing in the guy's head with his hammer.

Dexter
races up the stairs to catch him, but Trinity escapes and leaves in his
van. Dexter follows him all the way to his home.

Q.
What is it actually in real life?

A. An office
plaza - but nowhere near Miami.

Q.
Where can I find it in real life?

A. This is the
100 Oceangate center, at
the southwest corner of Ocean Blvd & Magnolia Ave/Queensway Branch,
in Long Beach, CA.
The entrance is on the 500 block of Ocean Blvd., just east of the World
Trade Center building.

The official
address is 100 Oceangate, Long Beach, CA, but that's a bit misleading,
because the only street named Oceangate is a semi-private driveway that
runs between the plaza and its parking garage.

100 Oceangate
is a 225,486 square foot office building, built in 1972. The sunken plaza,
where Lundy encounters Trinity, is located on the east side of the building.

When Lithgow
bumps into Lundy, he is walking north. You can briefly glimpse, through
the windows behind him, activity in a gym. That gym is the real "24-Hour
Fitness" gym, located in the plaza. Trinity exits up the steps on
the north side of the plaza, and catches the bus on the south side of Ocean
Blvd.

I
shot the photos below in November 2009.

The
top photo is shot looking northeast from street level, on the south side
of the upper plaza.

The
photo below is looking north/northeast across the sunken plaza where Lundy
& Trinity met, with downtown Long Beach in the background.

And
the third photo, below, was shot from that sunken plaza, looking up (north/northeast)
at the 100 Oceangate office tower.

A. At
first glane I assumed
this location would be somewhere in west Los Angeles, where these kind
of office plazas are common.

But
then I saw that familiar blue building (on the right in the middle photo
above) and recognized it as the Long Beach Courthouse, on Ocean Blvd. It
was then just a matter of looking across the street (via Bing's Bird's Eye View) for that striped office tower.

So
I went there in person to make sure, and shot the photos you see above.